Pipe Organ Database

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Casavant Frères Ltée. (Opus 2135, 1952)

Location:

Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School
101 Mason Boulevard
Toronto, ON M5M 3E2 CA
Chapel
Organ ID: 46476

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: High Schools, Preparatory Schools, and Academies
  • The organ has an unknown or unreported status.
  • The organ's condition is not playable.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Alessandro Sisti on November 26, 2022.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Electro-pneumatic (EP)
  • 14 ranks. 3 divisions. 2 manuals. 14 stops. 16 registers.
Great, Swell and Pedal:
  • Chest Type(s): Electro-pneumatic (EP) chests
We received the most recent update for this division from Jeff Scofield on June 30, 2020.
Main:
  • Manuals: 2
  • Divisions: 3
  • Stops: 14
  • Registers: 16
  • Manual Compass: 61
  • Pedal Compass: 32
  • Key Action: Electrical connection from key to chest.
  • Stop Action: Electric connection between stop control and chest.
  • Console Style: Traditional style with roll top.
  • Stop Controls: Tilting/rocking tablets above top manual.
  • Combination Action: Adjustable combination pistons.
  • Swell Control Type: Balanced swell shoes/pedals, AGO standard placement.
  • Pedalboard Type: Concave radiating pedalboard meeting AGO Standards.
  • Has Crescendo Pedal
  • Has Combination Action Thumb Pistons
We received the most recent update for this console from Jeff Scofield on June 30, 2020.
Alessandro Sisti on November 26, 2022:

The blower for the organ stopped working circa June 2021. I have been an organist with the NCBC's Daily TV Mass, which uses this location to record.

We received the most recent update for this note from Alessandro Sisti on November 26, 2022.
Database Manager on July 14, 2015:

Updated through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture and Denis Blaine. The tonal director was Stephen Stoot.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on February 27, 2010:

Identified by Rae Bolton from information furnished by Casavant Frères, courtesy of Simon Couture.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives: Open In New Tab
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Jeff Scofield on June 30, 2020.

Instrument Images:

Nave interior: Photograph by Alessandro Sisti. Taken on 2020-10-21

Organ chamber at top of nave rear wall: Photograph by Alessandro Sisti. Taken on 2020-10-21

Console: Photograph by Alessandro Sisti. Taken on 2020-10-20

Console (crescendo dial, some pistons, the pedal stops, the great stops, and the couplers): Photograph by Alessandro Sisti. Taken on 2020-10-20

Console (Manuals and the stop tabs, with focus on the swell stops. The cornopean, which is too out of tune to be usable, is marked X): Photograph by Alessandro Sisti. Taken on 2020-10-20

Console (Dedication plaque, the blower's "on" indicator, some stop tabs, the crescendo pedal, and the swell expression pedal): Photograph by Alessandro Sisti. Taken on 2020-10-20